UCLA Engineering Professor Named Holder of the Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science By Christopher Sutton UCLA Professor Bruce Dunn has been named holder of the Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science. "Bruce is a very deserving choice whose contributions to the materials science field are extraordinary," notes Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. "This endowment enables us to continue our tradition of pursuing cutting-edge scientific inquiry in this area." Professor J. D. Mackenzie, who last held the Chair, led a search committee that selected Dunn from an international group of 16 applicants. Dunn is considered a preeminent scholar in the field of sol-gel technologies and their use in synthesizing electronic and opto-electronic materials. Dunn earned both his MS ('72) and PhD ('74) at UCLA. He was a staff scientist at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center before joining the UCLA materials science and engineering faculty in 1980. Dunn has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals and has been awarded 13 patents. He has received a Fulbright Fellowship, several awards from the Department of Energy for outstanding research, and has held invited professorships at the University of Paris and the University of Bordeaux. He is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society and currently serves on the editorial boards of four scientific journals. The Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair is devoted to the field of ceramics and glass science, an area of vital interest to the continued progress and development of electronics, computer and aerospace technologies. The Nippon Sheet Glass Company was established in 1918. Its headquarters are located in Osaka, Japan. The company produces flat and safety glass, fine glass, electronic products for hard disk drives and telecom equipment and automotive products. For additional information about Dunn's research, please visit http://www.seas.ucla.edu/ms/faculty1/dunn.html.